'Grown-up ideas of what innocence should entail or adult awkwardness about sex... prevent parents from having these kind of important conversations.'
On a cool December morning when I was 38 weeks pregnant, I stepped out of bed and, with an audible, movie-perfect pop, felt my water break and begin to gush. As I grasped my belly and shouted for my husband with joy and a little bit of panic, my three-year-old dashed into the room and asked, with excitement in his eyes, “Mommy, is it time for my brother to come out of your vagina?!”
While my son’s language might come as a surprise to some, we were accustomed to him talking about birth in practical, real-life terms—after all, that’s how we’d always discussed it with him. As a certified health education specialist with a master’s degree in public health who has experience teaching sex education to pregnant and parenting teens, I know how important it is to talk to children, reproduction and relationships.
In the nearly two years since my second son came into the world, the quantity and depth of the conversations we’ve had as a family about sex and relationships have grown as much as he has. Check out the list below for four things that my four-year-old knows about sex that I think every preschooler should, too.
The first time my son asked where his soon-to-be-born brother came from, I explained that he was growing in my uterus—an organ in my tummy. A few weeks later, when he followed up to ask how the baby got in my uterus, I explained that there was an egg in my tummy and that when his father’s sperm met the egg, it began to grow into a baby.
Identifying age-appropriate ways to talk with your children about sex can be challenging, but as they grow and their questions become more complex, you’ll be glad you got the practice when they were little.
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